Popular Italian Cinema [electronic resource] /
Bayman, L.editor.
Rigoletto, S.editor.
Exciting new critical perspectives on popular Italian cinema including melodrama, poliziesco, the mondo film, the sex comedy, missionary cinema and the musical. The book interrogates the very meaning of popular cinema in Italy to give a sense of its complexity and specificity in Italian cinema, from early to contemporary cinema.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Sergio Rigoletto and Louis Bayman: The fair and the museum: framing the popular -- Christopher Wagstaff: Italian cinema, popular? -- Rosalind Galt: The prettiness of Italian cinema -- Richard Dyer: The pervasiveness of song in Italian cinema -- Louis Bayman: Melodrama as seriousness -- Tamao Nakahara: Moving masculinity: incest narratives in Italian sex comedies -- Sergio Rigoletto: Laughter in Lina Wertmüller's The seduction of Mimì -- Alex Marlow-Mann: Strategies of tension: towards a re-interpretation of Enzo G. Castellari's The big racket and the Italian crime film -- Irene Lottini: "Il delirio del lungo metraggio: cinema as mass phenomenon in early twentieth tentury Italian cinema -- Reka Buckley: Dressing the part: "made in Italy" goes to the movies with Lucia Bosé in Chronicle of a love affair -- Daniel O'Brien: Hercules versus Hercules: variation and continuation in two generations of heroic masculinity -- Alan O'Leary: On the complexity of cinepanettone -- Francesca Piredda: Cinema and popular preaching: the Italian missionary film and fiamme -- Mark Goodall: The Italian mondo documentary film.
Exciting new critical perspectives on popular Italian cinema including melodrama, poliziesco, the mondo film, the sex comedy, missionary cinema and the musical. The book interrogates the very meaning of popular cinema in Italy to give a sense of its complexity and specificity in Italian cinema, from early to contemporary cinema.
Motion pictures—European influences.
Motion pictures—History.
Motion pictures and television.
Film genres.
European Cinema and TV.
Film History.
Screen Studies.
Genre.